“In order to fight for your rights as a society, bravery is key. Cowardice usually condemns people to doom.” Validate this statement with reference to Francis Imbuga’s Betrayal in the city.

​Introduction

So many ills are propagated in the current society simply because a majority of people have chosen to be silent and do nothing about problems facing them. The perpetrations of such ills are left to go scot free. 

Body

• If the likes of Doga, Adika, Nina, Jusper, Jere and Mosese are absent in any society, the people either die poor, by the sword or as oppressed subject of a selfish regime.
• The beggars in the streets at one time wonder why Jusper is wasting his time fighting for their rights. They think that silence is the cure for their misery. They have allowed selfish leaders to go scot free after committing evil. The cycle of poverty continues.
• Regina constantly reminds her boyfriend, to abstain from talking negatively about the leadership of Kafira. She blames Adikas death and Mosese’s arrest on the victims and wishes that they had remained silent. She fails to achieve much.
• Askaris also warns Mosese and Jere about their “hot mouths”. He advises them to choose silence instead. They choose to defy him and eventually succeed.
• Tumbo, too, does not see the need for Jusper agitation and constant protest from the university. He believes the tokens he gets can substitute his freedoms and rights. He is humiliated.
• The publishers reject writers who write the truth too plainly like Jusper. Jusper does the entertainment play which leads to the palace coup.

Conclusion

​Indeed, bravery is a virtue, cowardice is a vice. When people arise and project their voices against oppression, then the world will be a better place.